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00:00But let's talk about this angst with 49er fans.
00:02Let's.
00:03Yeah.
00:04Pick the scab.
00:05Come on.
00:06Let's go.
00:078 at 8, 9-5-7, 9-5-70.
00:08What are you all worried about?
00:09Do you give them the benefit of the doubt?
00:12It's only day two.
00:13I think that the points you just made there on the crossover, I think it's fair to emotionally
00:19feel that way.
00:20There's no way a Niner fan is peacocking into the room today.
00:23No.
00:24You took it on the chin a little bit yesterday.
00:28Do you give them the benefit of the doubt?
00:31Now, you said no.
00:32Why?
00:34Because you have, in my estimation and the way I look at it, you are signaling that it
00:41is going to be some belt tightening is what's going to go on.
00:43So if it's belt tightening and if you look at who they've signed so far, they signed
00:48a blocking tight end, they signed a backup safety, and they signed a special teamer about
00:55a half hour ago.
00:56You have to Google it.
00:58Right now, it feels to me a little Farhanian as far as what you're doing.
01:04I know it's early and the draft hasn't happened and all the rest of it, but what it feels
01:08to me is like belt tightening and I can't help but think about what the organization
01:13is doing in terms of broader signaling where you have 10% of the team up for sale, which
01:20tells me you're trying to make a little bit of money.
01:23You are reportedly in on the Tampa Bay Rays if they're going to be up for sale, which
01:27tells me that maybe you want your resources to go toward a new property.
01:32You already bought into Leeds United.
01:34It feels to me like the ownership, and I'm not looking at Jed, I'm looking at the actual
01:39purse strings, pullers.
01:41It feels to me like what happened last year was you shoveled a bunch of money out, you
01:46went six and 11, and so now they're saying no more.
01:50I get that, but as a fan, it makes me not feel excited about free agency.
01:55That's fine.
01:56There's nothing to be excited about yet.
01:58They haven't given anybody anything to be excited about yet.
02:01A special teamer, and a backup safety, and a blocking tight end.
02:05I'll say it one more time.
02:06They haven't given the fans anything to be excited about.
02:09I do think you're potentially, at least potentially, taking a leap when you say the 49ers have
02:17decided we're going to stop spending on players so that we can buy a part of the raise.
02:21Like I don't have, and that's so-
02:23Well, part of the team is reportedly up for sale.
02:26Which could be, first of all, could be for many reasons, and second of all, might well
02:30be irrelevant in terms of what they do.
02:33They've got, like, I want this to be very, very clear, and Tim Calcommie will help us
02:39with this in 45 minutes.
02:40The Niners have plenty of money to spend.
02:44Plenty of money to spend.
02:45In terms of the cap.
02:46Yes.
02:47They have plenty of money to spend.
02:49If what they're doing is lowering their cash out, in other words, big names, big signing
02:57bonus, glitzy glamour glitzy, I don't know, like, that's part of the NFL, right?
03:04Everybody has to do that, right?
03:05You have to regenerate yourself constantly in the NFL because of the cap, because of
03:11the violence of the sport, because age happens so damn quickly in this sport.
03:19And that's why I get to the point I made earlier, which is, man, this is a lot of hand-wringing
03:23over a team that went 6-11.
03:26You damn well better hope they make some changes.
03:28So how do we go into an off-season where everyone's yelling, God, make some changes!
03:33And then they'll make some changes, and before we know what those changes are, we're like,
03:38hold on a second!
03:39Hold on!
03:40Please hang on to all of our players!
03:42Wait a minute, I thought we asked for some changes.
03:45So I'm not, like, against what you're saying, but I will say this.
03:49You know that I have had, all along, I have had belief in this front office, and I still
03:54do.
03:55So, they get the benefit of the doubt for now, but it's a short shelf life.
04:00Because free agency is not built in a day, but it is built in about five.
04:05You get about a week, and so if they're still sitting here at ground zero on Thursday, I'll
04:12come over to your side of the fence.
04:14But I do think that some of what they're doing is inevitable, it's part of football.
04:20I get it, but the choices that they're making, for me, like Dre Greenlaw, for example, and
04:26you decide that he's not worth what you're going to pay him, okay.
04:29You decide that he's not worth the money that he got, so you move off of him.
04:35Aaron Banks, a guy who, you know, whether or not you think he's been good, or I think
04:39he's been great, there's a team out there that thinks he's pretty good, and so he gets
04:43signed.
04:44And, you know, you look at Jalen Moore, a guy who was a good swing tackle for you, and
04:49he stepped in more than admirably when Trent Williams was out, and he played well, and
04:53then he gets a deal, and you don't want to pay that.
04:55I get it.
04:56You don't want to pay that much money for players that other people think are good players.
05:01So that's fine.
05:02I'm not going to begrudge you for that immediately, but go ahead and replace them with people
05:07who are as good, and maybe they make less, if that's going to work for you.
05:12So go ahead and replace Dre Greenlaw, and I know he's missed two of the last four years
05:16due to injury, and so that's a little bit of a tough spot.
05:19And last year, you thought that Devondra Campbell was the guy, and he was awful.
05:23He was awful, and then he quit on you, so I'm a little bit hesitant to give you the
05:28benefit of the doubt on that.
05:30Sure.
05:32I'm a little hesitant.
05:33But that's one signing.
05:34But that's a case example for me, and you've been chasing the opposite pass rusher, opposite
05:38Nick Bosa, and you brought in Dee Ford and Chase Young, and you brought in...
05:45Why is the 2024 draft not a case example for you?
05:48No, it is.
05:49I mean, they finally got one right.
05:50Good for you.
05:51To me, the most powerful thing that we've seen on social media in the last 24 hours,
05:57if you want to have the benefit of the doubt to the Niners front office or not, is to literally
06:02draw the line between the player they lost and the fact that they actually already replaced
06:07him.
06:08They already replaced him last year.
06:10You lose Aaron Banks, Dominic Pooney.
06:13You lose Talano Hufanga, Malik Mustafa.
06:16You lost Jarvarius Ward, Renardo Green.
06:20You lost...
06:21You might lose Jordan Mason.
06:23You lost Eli Mischel, Isaac Arendo.
06:25Patrick Taylor Jr.
06:27Well, that one doesn't...
06:28That's too far down the depth chart, and that's why I'm with you on Dre Greenlaw, because
06:31they have not replaced that as of yet.
06:34So they've got work to do.
06:36I don't argue that, but I would argue that the majority, not all, but the majority of
06:42the players who left in free agency so far are not players that I'm freaked out to lose
06:50at all.
06:51Now, you're asking your depth pieces, and you mentioned Malik Mustafa, who you're asking
06:57now to come in and be the dude.
06:59Yeah!
07:00Hell yeah!
07:01And last year, was he the dude?
07:02Yeah.
07:036-11.
07:04Well...
07:056-11.
07:06Okay.
07:07Hold on.
07:08And...
07:09That is...
07:10And...
07:11And...
07:12And...
07:13And...
07:14And...
07:15And...
07:16And...
07:17And...
07:18And...
07:19And...
07:20And...
07:21And...
07:22And again!
07:23But how is that not the same?
07:24Oh, wait.
07:25So 6-11...
07:26Yeah, you can't...
07:27How is that not the same thing, Mark?
07:28It is because you can't...
07:29It's exactly the same.
07:30I'll wait till you die.
07:31I am done for now!
07:32Great.
07:33Great.
07:34There's plenty more.
07:35Here's the response to that, my dude.
07:36You cannot pin an entire 6-11 season on individuals, but I can certainly position it on large position
07:41groups.
07:42You are watching a defensive line and offensive line get reworked because they sucked really
07:49bad.
07:50Go look at the metrics.
07:52They sucked.
07:53And you're bringing back 60% of that offensive line.
07:56Not yet.
07:57As of now?
07:58I don't know.
07:59I know.
08:00As of now?
08:01Right, because you keep wanting to assess their entire offseason over Monday.
08:03Well then why are we even talking about it?
08:05Because.
08:06We should wait until September 9th and then we can talk about it.
08:08That's why the question I'm asking is not asking you to look backward, it's asking you
08:11to look forward.
08:12And I'm looking right now.
08:13Do you give them the benefit of the doubt?
08:16No, I don't.
08:17And that's fine.
08:18That can be your opinion.
08:19For one time in their regime, they actually nailed the draft.
08:20For the first time in totality, they nailed it.
08:23They're one for eight.
08:24But you can't argue, well, that's a little bit of a broad brush.
08:28You're acting like they've never made a good pick before.
08:30No, they've made good picks.
08:31But what they did last year was special.
08:32You cannot say they've failed seven drafts in a row when they've wanted to re-sign Kittle
08:38and Warner and Brock Purdy.
08:41Banks and Jalen Moore.
08:42For that.
08:43No, not Banks and Jalen Moore.
08:44Exactly.
08:45No.
08:46But a lot of homegrown players.
08:47The whole receiving core got extensions.
08:48And how did that work?
08:49And how did that work out for you?
08:51Well, I mean, I don't know.
08:52It worked out pretty well when Debo got it the first time and Jawan Jennings worked out
08:55pretty well.
08:56I've been on record saying IUK was a mistake.
08:59I said it before they did it.
09:01But don't act like they don't like any of the players they've ever picked.
09:05It's disingenuous.
09:06No, but don't act like a 6-11 team.
09:09You can pick and choose who was a bad one to get rid of and who was good to keep.
09:13It's the totality of it.
09:15Right.
09:16And you want to keep the band together.
09:17That's essentially what your point has been.
09:19Your point is, Diamondo Lenore is amazing on a 6-11 team, yet Leonard Floyd is bad because
09:26they were 6-11.
09:27I never made that point.
09:28That's kind of what you're saying.
09:30That's not what I'm saying.
09:31What I said was...
09:32You're saying he can't stop the run, so he's got to go.
09:34I didn't like Leonard Floyd.
09:36I don't think he was that good, but I never made it all about Leonard Floyd.
09:40I'm making it about the 49ers in totality.
09:42As you say, 11 players on the way out the door.
09:46Why are we so worried about the girth that we're losing when they weren't good?
09:51Of course they're going to make changes.
09:54We asked for them to make changes.
09:56Now they're making changes and we're freaked out that people are leaving?
10:00Of course people are leaving.
10:02And I'm not going to sit here and say, I'm glad all of them are gone.
10:05I haven't said that.
10:06Drake Greenlaw hurts.
10:08And on an emotional level, so does Hugh Jack, because he's been such a part of some special
10:13things.
10:14But to expect the 49ers to match $77 million for Aaron Banks is ludicrous.
10:19It's ludicrous to see if the Niners match that.
10:22It depends on how you value your offensive line.
10:25So, you know, Dominic Pooney, fine, he's a rookie, right tackle, right guard, rather,
10:30and I wonder who your left guard's going to be.
10:33And your center had a bad year and your right tackle had a bad year, and it doesn't mean
10:37that this is going to be your line starting out the season.
10:40But right now, when you look at their O-line today, as opposed to on Friday, it's hard.
10:45I'm hard-pressed to say that it looks better.
10:47It doesn't exist yet.
10:48Right?
10:49It doesn't exist yet.
10:50Well, then why are we even having this conversation?
10:53Because the conversation, if you keep hearing me, is are you giving them the benefit of
10:57the doubt?
10:58And if you're hearing me, I'm telling you no.
10:59I understand that.
11:00But your reasoning is then you're assessing pizza that you haven't tasted yet.
11:03No, I'm assessing.
11:04I have no idea who's on the team.
11:05I'm assessing their approach.
11:07They're not spending money on their players that they drafted.
11:10And Adam Peters, who was their No. 1 advanced scout player personnel guy, he's been gone
11:16now two years.
11:17Yeah.
11:18And how's that worked out for you?
11:19I don't know.
11:20I know that he just gave a bucket full of money to Javon Kinlaw, and if he were still
11:23a Niner and he did that, we'd be ripping his butt to shreds today.
11:27That's what I know.
11:28Kinlaw was better since he left the Niners.
11:30Good Lord.
11:31Without a doubt.
11:32Good Lord.
11:33He was hurt here, and then they gave up on him.
11:34Yeah.
11:35And he went out and he had a good year.
11:37So, you're saying you're going to buy Javon Kinlaw for $45 million.
11:38Is that what you're saying?
11:39All I'm saying is he was better when he left here.
11:42So, again.
11:43So, you drafted him in the first round, and then you decided he wasn't very good.
11:47Yeah.
11:48He was a bust.
11:49Well, they decided he was a bust.
11:50Yeah, he was.
11:51He's now gone on to two teams.
11:52He was.
11:53And he's not a bust if he gets $45 million.
11:54He was.
11:55The Eagles threw him around like a ragdoll in the NFC Championship game.
11:57Two years ago.
11:58Yeah.
11:59Yeah.
12:00He was a bust for the 49ers.
12:01Coming off an injury-plagued year, and then last year he played well enough to get $45
12:05million?
12:06I'm sure that he doesn't feel like a bust.
12:08Well, good for him.
12:09Yeah.
12:10Yeah.
12:11He's a rich man.
12:12That's wonderful.
12:13I don't care about that.
12:14I care about the 49ers playing good football.
12:16And that guy did not play good football for the 49ers when he played, and that was rare.
12:20So, I don't know why we would...
12:22You know what I mean?
12:23Like, why...
12:24That's what I'm getting at.
12:25Why, with fingernails, do you want to dig in and hang on to people that everyone spent
12:29four months ripping?
12:32And this was a horrible season.
12:35And the 49ers, like, there are realities to this.
12:38They have a quarterback that they're about to keep, and they have other players who are
12:41playing well who need money.
12:44George Kittle, Fred Warner.
12:45Fred Warner needs a new contract.
12:46He's got nothing guaranteed left.
12:48Don't you want to keep him?
12:49Yeah.
12:50Okay.
12:51Let's see how long it takes them to nickel and dime him into the ground.
12:54I'm going to put it at July 12th as the overrunner.
12:57And that's a different conversation, and you may be right about that.
13:00You can easily criticize the 49ers for waiting too long to sign a lot of their deals.
13:06They could have had Brandon Ayuk for cheaper, and now they're sitting here with Brock Purdy
13:09watching other quarterbacks get signed.
13:12But this is speculative.
13:13I don't want to assess a roster that doesn't exist.
13:16The idea is, the Niners are who they are for the last six years.
13:20For at least a few more days, do you give them the benefit of the doubt or not?
13:24I do, but there's a shelf life on it for now.
13:27I do for now.
13:28You clearly don't.
13:29Thursday is the day you said.
13:31Yeah.
13:32So, 888-957-9570, you can weigh in on this.
13:35Which side are you on?
13:37888-957-9570.
13:38We'll take your calls on this right now.
13:41We would love to hear from 49er fans.
13:44Do you give the Niner front office right now, after one day of free agency, the benefit
13:49of the doubt or not?
13:50At least temporarily.